completely truthful…Better Help 2019… review of better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i have actually used it enough time to understand what are the pros and cons so i’m going to stroll you through all of those and then provide you my last thoughts on whether i would recommend better assistance and whether i believe it’s the best service for you for those of you that do not understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links people who are searching for counseling or therapy with mental health experts it’s a pretty basic procedure to get going so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some concerns that will better assist match you with a therapist or a therapist so after you submit what i would call a pretty lengthy questionnaire they ask you to develop an account and then you established your payment choices i’ll talk about this a bit more later but there are scholarships that can reduce the cost and after that you can also alter your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most expensive however you can likewise pay in advance which will make the cost less expensive for you total and then based upon your answers to your questions in the formerly mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not necessarily the case and i believe that much better aid provides both types of mental health professionals so just keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to consult with them and you can set up a time to have your very first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a routine telephone call or through a chat or immediate message i always do video calls but it is excellent to know that all four choices 3 truly to me however they say it’s four are readily available and i understand that’s absolutely helpful for some people who are perhaps a bit more anxious about therapy or not interested in doing a video call due to the fact that it makes them uneasy when the day of your session comes you can either log into the web browser or log in to the mobile app you can’t do both at the same time only one at a time and after that you wait for your counselor to sign up with and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can start having your your meeting throughout your first session you’re probably going to have just a get to know you kind of session to find out why are you thinking about treatment what things do you want to address what are your choices as somebody attending therapy what are your therapists preferences and what’s their design of treatment all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can speak about your issues and whatever it is that you want to resolve and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions however you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your therapist so with my counselor in particular i think this does differ by counselor but we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent for all of my sessions in advance to get that more affordable rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe among the biggest pros of much better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it very hassle-free and very available for the majority of people as long as you have a web connection you can select a variety of various ways to consult with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you reminders about your visit so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time established they send you both email tips and text tips and they send them to you a few days ahead and likewise a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill however uh certainly effective and another cool feature of them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are offered to anybody who uses betterhelp totally for free it’s at no additional expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being said in my viewpoint the app and the platform is not great in fact it sort of draws specifically thinking about that better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i imply i guess they’re offering the network however i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not a great one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help 2019
or messaging or talking during a session photos are shared extremely strangely they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you have to like browse select the image then put it in and after that the person can’t see a sneak peek of the photo they need to click into the file to see it it’s simply extremely outdated small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so